Late Interaction questions OpenAI's Sol-tier versioning: can GPT-6 Sol be weaker than this yet beat 5.6?

lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-07

lateinteraction comments on model naming and pricing strategy: the models are genuinely good and GPT-6 is clearly better than 5.6, but he says he'd have been reasonably impressed if it shipped as "GPT-6 Sol" with pricing/size calibrated accordingly — yet it's hard to imagine a GPT-6 Sol noticeably weaker than this still being better than GPT-5.6 Sol.

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